Please tell me the wailing will end soon?

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Ds has been ill - nasty cough, temperature, etc etc

He's on the mend now, still has the cough a bit, but doesn't seem to be able to shake the tiredness off - or the wailing!

All day long, he wails at the slightest thing. Getting a nappy changed takes about half an hour when you factor in the negotiations required. The slightest thing goes wrong, he wails. If I attempt to do anything except be with him, he hangs onto my leg and wails.....

'Don't go up the stairs!'
'Don't open the cupboard!'
'Don't eat your breakfast!'
'Don't brush your hair!'

ad infinitum

Please tell me this is just the illness and it'll be over soon? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssseeeeeeeeeee?!?!

Or is this just normal 2.5 year old behaviour? Cause if it is, I'm moving to Peru.

My DP is from Peru and they wail there too I'm afraid.
No the wailing doesnt ever end the wailing voice just gets deeper and the sentence structure becomes more complex...

Perhaps you could get some foam ear plugs and let him get on with it. Just a bit.

I LOVE your name by the way. It's a phrase I use almost daily. I can't remember from whence it came but am thinking a Shakespeare play? Macbeth perhaps?

IME wailing becomes whining when they are well and reverts to wailing when illness strikes again.

Ds is 2.3 and is fantastic at wailing when under the weather or tired.
Spidermama is right - whining is the default setting for toddlers.

He's normally quite a sunny tempered child.....I'm worried that he'll never go back to his old self, and that this is it for the foreseeable future.

You try and do anything remotely positive, and it's 'Nooooooooooooooooo! I don't want to have a nice time! I don't want to have a treat! I don't like the pretty flowers! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!'

I'm so tired.

As for the name - I used to be LittleMyDancing but the dancing stopped about the time that the wailing began! Apparently it's what Dorothy Parker used to say when the phone rang......

sounds normal to me

Sounds like DD sometimes (2.6). Especially when she's ill. So: normal. (Book tickets to somewhere far away...)